KdgR

• Description: transcriptional repressor of the pectin utilization operon, (LacI family)
  
  

Gene name	kdgR
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	transcriptional repressor of the pectin utilization operon, (LacI family)
Function	regulation of galacturonic acid utilization
MW, pI	37 kDa, 8.824
Gene length, protein length	1017 bp, 339 aa
Immediate neighbours	kdgK, kduI
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU22120

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: peptidase S11 family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P50844

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: kdgR-kdgK-kdgA-kdgT PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:
  • induced by galacturonate (KdgR) PubMed
  • repressed by glucose (CcpA) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • KdgR: transcription repression PubMed
  • CcpA: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: